How is it safe to have a nuclear reactor on aircraft carriers and submarines when they are a potential military targets?
In: 132
The whole idea that any nuclear material will just create a nuclear explosion if you blow it up is just a meme. It requires very specific conditions and materials to work at all, and those do not exist in generators.
Generators on land have the risk of cooling towers having the steam they release get contaminated so it releases harmful particles into the air. That isn’t the case with subs and boats since they have ample water around them and don’t need to rely on air to cool.
Nuclear particles contaminating water for hundreds of miles is also a meme. It gets diluted pretty fast and it’s only a problem when water is going directly through the damaged reactor and onto land where people farm and drink the ground water (this was the case with Fukushima). The particles are mainly just a problem when inhaled or ingested
Latest Answers